Jules Verne ~6 hr read

Dr. Samuel Fergusson proposes to the Royal Geographical Society an audacious plan, to cross the unexplored heart of Africa by balloon, in Verne's very first great voyage extraordinaire.

This is a Finnish translation of Jules Verne's Five Weeks in a Balloon, the novel that launched his career. Vivid, adventurous, foundational. Read it for the book that began the Voyages Extraordinaires, a thrilling balloon expedition across darkest Africa, brimming with geography, danger, and wonder, one of the founding works of modern adventure and science fiction, here rendered for Finnish readers.

In its time

Published in 1863, during the 1860s, verne launches the voyages extraordinaires.

Reading it

~6 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).